{"id":559480,"date":"2026-03-25T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T10:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/559480\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T10:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T10:00:13","slug":"afghan-mma-fighter-nazhand-to-face-argentine-opponent-in-may-pajhwok-afghan-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/559480\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan MMA fighter Nazhand to face Argentine opponent in May \u2013 Pajhwok Afghan News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (Pajhwok): Afghan mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter Wahidullah Nazhand is scheduled to compete with his opponent from Argentina Laureano Staropoli on May 9, the Fight Nights Championship (FNC) announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>FNC stated the bout will take place in the 77-kilogram weight category as part of the organisation\u2019s 30th event at the Kre\u0161imir \u0106osi\u0107 Hall in Zadar.<\/p>\n<p>Nazhand previously competed in the Octagon and signed with FNC on January 2026.<\/p>\n<p>In his professional career, he has won 10 bouts and lost two out of 12 fights. His most recent fight in the Octagon was a knockout victory over Tajikistani fighter Shokhnazarov.<\/p>\n<p>Staropoli, his Argentine opponent, has a record of 13 wins and seven losses so far.<\/p>\n<p>hz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KABUL (Pajhwok): Afghan mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter Wahidullah Nazhand is scheduled to compete with his opponent from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[216399,49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-559480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-afghan-mma-fighter","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}